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What is the name of the black-and-white superhero show in “The Creator”?

Those are two different films. The first film is Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966). A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes ...
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Trying to remember an ancient Greek fantasy movie, possibly video game

Could this be Tarsem Singh's 2011 movie "Immortals"? It has a distinctive and peculiar visual style, the story has Greek gods and titans, and the other details ...
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90's movie involving a super-soldier, a fear-smelling "monster", and a trapped man and woman

Time frame doesn't quite line up but this could otherwise be After Earth (2013) Where the monsters featured are receptive to human fear pheromones but one of the protagonists (Will Smith) shows that ...
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Chinese or Japanese animation with running white horse at the end

Your description reminds me of Gasaraki (1998). The ending had Japanese imagery, a girl and a white horse running from right to left. It's an anime made in the late 90's so barely in your time frame
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90's movie involving a super-soldier, a fear-smelling "monster", and a trapped man and woman

Looks like it is Death Machine (1994), YouTube trailer Plot After a mad genius inventor of killer robots and cyborgs at Chaank Armaments Corp. kills execs, he unleashes his ultimate death machine on ...
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What are these classic 80's action movies?

The "blue floating face" in scene #4 is from Time Bandits:
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Film from the 1960s, like "She," that ends with a lost underground city being destroyed by an atom bomb

Is this Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)...? From Wikipedia: Journey Beneath the Desert (Italian: Antinea, l'amante della città sepolta) is a 1961 adventure film based on the novel Atlantida by ...
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What are these classic 80's action movies?

The scene at 2:41:01 (white spherical explosion between tall dark buildings) is from 1988 iconic anime masterpiece "Akira", in particular from the penultimate scene. Screenshot from the ...
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Sci-fi / Action movie involving portals appearing in the desert and soldiers accidently passing through into another dimension (last 10 years)

This sounds a lot like the 2020 movie Monster Hunter based on the video game of the same name. Quoting from the plot summary on Wikipedia: On Earth, U.S. Army Ranger Captain Natalie Artemis and her ...
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach

It's not a film, but this sounds an awful lot like the first episode featuring a Trill in Star Trek: TNG, The Host
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach

Is this David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975)...? The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream

As Wondercricket noted in a comment, this could be Hallmark film In My Dreams Nick Smith and Natalie Russo are single, living in the same city. On opposite sides of a fountain, they are both ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream

Possibly Paperhouse While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has ...
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Which old black and white movie is the end of the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" video based on? (Not "Death Takes a Holiday!")

Might you be referring to the HIM cover of the song? That video is a mix of several old B&W movies along with more recent color films that have been given the B&W treatment. There is a scene ...
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Story where hospital staff succumb to aliens and wear them close to their bodies

If it was a bit later than you remember, it could be the 2006 Candy Stripers (not to be confused with the 1978 porn film of the same name) Candy Stripers begins with a blind girl taken into the ER ...
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What's the title of the movie where flesh and muscle monsters eat humans

This is Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008). The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to ...
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I'm trying to find a short thriller film about a light bulb and kids in a room

It was a short movie called Click from 2010. "Alter" was also in the title:
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Movie where a man invents a spray that removes sounds

I believe this movie is The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) which is the only feature film written by Dr. Seuss. The young protagonist must take piano lessons, which he hates, and dreams a surreal dream ...
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Live-action movie where a boy goes fishing and the fish appear above the lake

I'm certain that you remember the recent Netflix series "Raising Dion", about ordinary people who develop super-powers after a bizarre incident with the Aurora Borealis. The fish scene was a ...
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Alien invasion movie, including the line: "We are the food"

the movie is an episode from the Twilight Zone called To Serve Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
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Sci fi movie with a blind skeletal robot hunting a man in a warehouse

It sounds like you're describing the final chase scene in the film Westworld (1973). Yul Brynner's character 'The Gunslinger' is designed for outdoor use and mistakes our character's heat pattern for ...
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Film where a vacuum cleaner attacks

Blood sucking vacuums from mars? I watched a b movie called that. Cant find on the internet. Just VHS video would say mid to late 80s
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What does "Crossbone Crunch" mean?

"Crossbone Crunch" appears to be a fictional brand of snack chips of some description. An earlier version of the script also has him finding a fictional brand of soft drink, "Diet ...
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape

It sounds like you're describing an episode of the TV show Are You Afraid of The Dark? from 1995: The Tale of the Unfinished Painting. In it, a young girl meets a woman at an art gallery full of ...
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape

Is it perhaps The Pagemaster, starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd? It came out in the early 90s, features an older gentleman (Lloyd) who transforms the protagonist into an animated ...
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape

This does sound to me very much like The Peanut Butter Solution, released in 1985, but with a few important differences. In the film a boy named Michael is scared by a ghost and loses all of his hair. ...
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Alien invasion movie, including the line: "We are the food"

Is this the TV-movie, Survivor (1999)...? An Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that begin ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby

Progeny (1998)? Wikipedia gives a basic plot summary: Sherry Craig, a professional woman, happily discovers she is pregnant. While this is happy news for her and her husband Craig who is a doctor, ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby

This might be "The Stranger Within", a 1974 made-for-television movie based on Richard Matheson's novella "Trespass". I've included a link to the film's Wikipedia entry. There is ...
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UK horror movie involving a team of University students studying and documenting a possessed girl they keep locked in room

Could this be The Quiet Ones (2014)? A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the process. Allegedly ...
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Horror movie where a girl gives a boy a necklace for protection against an entity that ends up killing his mother

Is this Darkness Falls (2003)...? A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now ...
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Does the German movie translation of Lord of the Rings intentionally use 'du' in this way?

The reason that Gandalf addresses the Balrog with du is quite simple: Sie is reserved for people. Germans never address non-human beings* with Sie. As the Balrog isn't a person†, it is addressed with ...
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